Informed Views From Outside the Beltway
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Informed Views From Outside the Beltway
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The
Yanks are Coming |
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Over there, over
there, Glenn Beck has
transformed that stirring WW I battle cry to read "Over Here." At his behest about a
half-million Yanks gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last Saturday to hear
their host urge them and all their fellow Americans to reassert their faith in God and
acknowledge the role of Divine Providence in guiding and protecting this
nation from its very beginnings. It was an
extraordinary event, totally absent of the hatred and violence the despicable mainstream
media assured their readers and viewers would accompany the rally. It was probably the
best behaved crowd ever to come to It was also a huge
surprise for our would-be omniscient media . Glenn Beck, best known for his aggressive
style played the for-him unfamiliar role of a fervent revivalist urging his
followers to follow Christ's admonition that we love one another as we love ourselves, and
that we devote ourselves to reforming a nation under God but gone astray. Much to the media's
disappointment he failed to point a finger at his usual villains - the
"progressives," as he terms the ultra-left wing. He was. instead St. Paul
carrying the word of God far and wide, not the political rabble rouser portrayed by the
media, and his vast audience was a congregation of genuine and peaceful Americans from all
walks of life, not the angry crowd the media expected to come and tear up the turf. One journalist
wandered around the scene after the crowds had left. He found not a single piece of trash
in the huge. Close-to-one-mile-long area previously occupied by Beck's giant
audience. All he found was a faded piece of paper that had obviously been there
before the crowd arrived. That in itself borders on the miraculous. One must be forgiven
for feeling a little giddy over the media's disappointment but there is little time for
that. Having done everything in their power to discourage the public from paying any
attention to Beck's crusade last Saturday, they now turn to flat out lying about what
occurred and savaging such personalities associated with the event such as Dr. King's
niece whose own father, like her uncle, died as a victim of the struggle for equal justice
for all, black and white. Beck and his rally
associates such as Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, have received death
threats they believe to be credible. Such disreputable groups as the Huffington Post put
out the word that there was $100,000 available to anyone who could find a porn movie that
might involve Beck. These are desperate people, terrified at the reawakening of the
American spirit now underway partially due to Glenn Beck's proselytizing. And
desperate people do desperate things. It won't work, Glenn
Beck didn't light a blazing fire of reborn patriotism, it was already there and growing,
but he sure fanned the flames. And those flames are not going to turn into embers
until the cleansing fire has burned away all the litter left behind by a generation of
cynical leftwing demagogues. The Yanks aren't
coming. They're here. To stay. Thanks Glenn. Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com |
